ProtechSoft Systems as new Associate Member

On July 24, 2004, ProtechSoft Systems, from Chennai, India applied for Associate Membership in CO-LaN.

V. RAMAN, CEO of ProtechSoft Systems explains their wish to join CO-LaN through the following statement:

“Our engineering department develops software related to Process engineering applications. Specifically, we develop Dynamic Simulation models for process plants (refinery, fertilizers, Gas plants and Power plants). These simulator models are provided with emulation of control systems (DCS of Honeywell or Yokogawa or Foxboro) sothat the Operator or engineer can operate the model virtually like real plant. He can do start-up, shutdown and all other normal operations on the simulator.All equipments, pipelines, instruments and interlocks/logics are incorporated in the model. The simulator is also provided with an Instructor interface sothat external disturbances and malfunctions can be injected on the model and performance of the engineer can be monitored. The main objective of this simulator is training persons on Process plant operations, verification of control systems, verification of design/operating procedures and carry out de-bottleneck studies.The models are built based on fundamental laws of physics, design data of equipments and experimental data. We use steady state simulation package results to input the initial values of the model. Currently our model building tool does not have Graphic interface and Themo has to be improved. We are very keen to develop and improve our modeling engine. We think that our association with CO-LAN will be great use and we will also be able to contribute to the association.”

CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation socket in SuperPro Designer®

Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator (APECS)

Model-centric process engineering

DyOS is a software tool for the solution of dynamic optimization problems.DyOS allows the model to be accessed via a so-called Equation Set Object (ESO) interface, a standard developed in the CAPE-OPEN project.

CAPE-OPEN at TOTAL

Use of CAPE-OPEN at BP as of 2008

Air Liquide use of CAPE-OPEN

This report, made at the CAPE-OPEN 2008 European Conference, covers actions related to CAPE-OPEN between 2004 and 2008. Air Liquide has been leveraging on CAPE-OPEN to streamline the process of developing and distributing thermodynamic expertise within its engineering functions.

CAPE-OPEN Property Package for ChemSep

CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation socket in UniSim Design

Honeywell Process Solutions was awarded funding within the Consultancy Services scheme. Outcome of this action was reported by Martin ROSS, UniSim Product Manager, at the CAPE-OPEN 2014 Annual Meeting, held on September 10-11, 2014 in Mörfelden, Germany.

Consultancy Services: how does it work?

The purpose of the Consultancy Services scheme is to provide assistance, in the form of access to a specialist consultant and funding, in the new implementation of CAPE-OPEN interfaces or the improvement of existing interface implementations. Look out for the next round of service requests and apply.

Dynamic simulation and numerical analysis tool

The simulation environment Diana (Dynamic simulation and numerical analysis tool) performs the numerical analysis of problems such as the ones usually found in process engineering.

One of the main aspects of Diana is that it relies on the CAPE-OPEN Numerical interfaces. The models handled by the solvers within the numerical kernel of Diana, or plugged in Diana, are object-oriented models based on the CAPE-OPEN Equation Set Object (ESO) concept.